rpl_packet got a timeout failure sporadically on PB when stopping
slave. The real reason of this bug is that STOP SLAVE stopped
IO thread first and then stopped SQL thread. It was
possible that IO thread stopped after replicating part of a
transaction which SQL thread was executing. SQL thread would
be hung if the transaction could not be rolled back safely.
            
After this patch, STOP SLAVE will stop SQL thread first and then stop IO
thread, which guarantees that IO thread will fetch the reset of the
events of the transaction that SQL thread is executing, so that SQL
thread can finish the transaction if it cannot be rolled back safely.
            
Added below auxiliary files to make the test code neater.
restart_slave_sql.inc
rpl_connection_master.inc
rpl_connection_slave.inc
rpl_connection_slave1.inc

Undoing the patch, it complicates the code but is not the solution

I do not beleive newline mismatch could be the cause of this failure
First, I cannot see how this could be a problem, mtr ignores the newline
  when reading the expect file, and the file is written and read on Windows.
Second, if this really was the problem it should have been deterministic:
  either the newline is correctly interepreted or it is not.

Problem: the scanner function tested for strings "<![CDATA[" and
"-->" without checking input string boundaries, which led to valgrind's
"Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s)" error.

Fix: Adding boundary checking.

  @ mysql-test/r/xml.result
  @ mysql-test/t/xml.test
  Adding test

  @ strings/xml.c
  Adding a helper function my_xml_parser_prefix_cmp(),
  with input string boundary check.

BUG#58858 : sys_vars.innodb_max_dirty_pages_pct_func fails sporadically

Committing After latest merge.      
Modified check_pct procedure to check return value of wait condition instead 
of calling "dirty_pct".
   
Adding Review comments:
1) Added comment for success variable value
2) Procedure check_pct changed For Adding BOOLEAN input and SELECT QUERY Change

Introduced by the fix for bug#44766.

Problem: it's not correct to use args[0]->str_value as a buffer,
because args[0] may need this buffer for its own purposes.

Fix: adding a new class member tmp_value to use as return value.

  @ mysql-test/r/ctype_many.result
  @ mysql-test/t/ctype_many.test
  Adding tests

  @ sql/item_strfunc.cc
  Changing code into traditional style:
  use "str" as a buffer for the argument and tmp_value for the result value.

  @ sql/item_strfunc.h
  Adding tmp_value

      
Problem: when processing a query like:
  SELECT '' LIKE '1' ESCAPE COUNT(1);
escape_item->val_str() was never executed and the "escape" class member
stayed initialized, which led to valgrind uninitialized memory error.
      
Note, a query with some tables in "FROM" clause
returns ER_WRONG_ARGUMENTS in the same situation:

   SELECT '' LIKE '1' ESCAPE COUNT(1) FROM t1;
   ERROR 1210 (HY000): Incorrect arguments to ESCAPE

Fix: disallowing using aggregate functions in ESCAPE clause,
even if there are no tables used. There is no much use of that anyway.

When mysqldadmin is run with sleep and count options,
it goes into an infinite loop and keeps executing the
specified command.

This happened because the statement, responsible for
decrementing the count value, was missing.

Fixed by adding a statement which will decrement the
count value for each iteration.

It is a backported patch.

Backport to 5.0.

/*![:version:] Query Code */, where [:version:] is a sequence of 5 
digits representing the mysql server version(e.g /*!50200 ... */),
is a special comment that the query in it can be executed on those 
servers whose versions are larger than the version appearing in the 
comment. It leads to a security issue when slave's version is larger 
than master's. A malicious user can improve his privileges on slaves. 
Because slave SQL thread is running with SUPER privileges, so it can
execute queries that he/she does not have privileges on master.
      
This bug is fixed with the logic below: 
- To replace '!' with ' ' in the magic comments which are not applied on
  master. So they become common comments and will not be applied on slave.
      
- Example:
  'INSERT INTO t1 VALUES (1) /*!10000, (2)*/ /*!99999 ,(3)*/
   will be binlogged as
  'INSERT INTO t1 VALUES (1) /*!10000, (2)*/ /* 99999 ,(3)*/

        IA64 and some other arcitectures use different float rounding mode and
        i find no decent way to make it consistent.
        So the test changed to be insensitive to this.

per-file messages:
  mysql-test/t/gis.test
Bug#52208      gis fails on some platforms (Solaris, HP-UX, Linux)
        --replace_result added

When mysqldump tries to dump information in xml format,
the result does not contain field level comments.

In order to retrieve various informations for a field/column,
mysqldump currently uses 'show fields from <tab>' statement.
The attributes returned by the statement lacks the information
regarding field comments.

Fixed by changing the query to one that probes I_S to retrieve
required field informations, including the field comment.

Backported the fix to 5.1.
Problem: the auxiliary test files rpl_start_server.inc and rpl_stop_server.inc
write a file that is later read by mtr. The bug was that the file was written
with platform-dependent newline terminators, i.e., \r\n on windows, whereas mtr
only understands \n.
Fix: write the file so that it uses \n on all platforms.

            null from mysql_store_result.

mysqlslap segfaults at a point when it tries to fetch rows from
the result set.

Under some circumstances, mysql_store_result can return 'NULL',
even after query execution (mysql_query) succeeds, and eventually
a segfault might occur if same unchecked return value is passed
to mysql_fetch_row.

Fixed by adding a check on mysql_store_result's return value.

other crashes

Some string manipulating SQL functions use a shared string object intended to
contain an immutable empty string. This object was used by the SQL function
SUBSTRING_INDEX() to return an empty string when one argument was of the wrong
datatype. If the string object was then modified by the sql function INSERT(),
undefined behavior ensued.

Fixed by instead modifying the string object representing the function's
result value whenever string manipulating SQL functions return an empty
string.

Relevant code has also been documented.

      
The test case fails with out of memory while updating a table
with several multi-megabytes sized rows. This can probably be too
exhausting for PB2 env.
      
The quick fix here is to reduce the size of the biggest
row (256MB) so that it becomes a little smaller (64MB).

INVOKER-security view access check wrong".

When privilege checks were done for tables used from an 
INVOKER-security view which in its turn was used from 
a DEFINER-security view connection's active security
context was incorrectly used instead of security context
with privileges of the second view's creator.

This meant that users which had enough rights to access
the DEFINER-security view and as result were supposed to 
be able successfully access it were unable to do so in 
cases when they didn't have privileges on underlying tables 
of the INVOKER-security view.

This problem was caused by the fact that for INVOKER-security
views TABLE_LIST::security_ctx member for underlying tables
were set to 0 even in cases when particular view was used from 
another DEFINER-security view. This meant that when checks of
privileges on these underlying tables was done in
setup_tables_and_check_access() active connection security 
context was used instead of context corresponding to the 
creator of caller view.

This fix addresses the problem by ensuring that underlying
tables of an INVOKER-security view inherit security context
from the view and thus correct security context is used for
privilege checks on underlying tables in cases when such view 
is used from another view with DEFINER-security.

        Item_func_spatial_collection::fix_length_and_dec didn't call parent's method, so
        the maybe_null was set to '0' after it. But in this case the result was
        just NULL, that caused wrong behaviour.

per-file comments:
  mysql-test/r/gis.result
Bug #57321 crashes and valgrind errors from spatial types 
        test result updated.

  mysql-test/t/gis.test
Bug #57321 crashes and valgrind errors from spatial types 
        test case added.
  sql/item_geofunc.h
Bug #57321 crashes and valgrind errors from spatial types 
        Item_func_geometry::fix_length_and_dec() called in
        Item_func_spatial_collection::fix_length_and_dec().

tmptable needed

The function DEFAULT() works by modifying the the data buffer pointers (often
referred to as 'record' or 'table record') of its argument. This modification
is done during name resolution (fix_fields().) Unfortunately, the same
modification is done when creating a temporary table, because default values
need to propagate to the new table.

Fixed by skipping the pointer modification for fields that are arguments to
the DEFAULT function.

if max_allowed_packet >= 16M.

This bug was introduced by patch for bug#42503.

This patch restores behaviour that there was before patch
for bug#42503 was applied.

Followup: had forgotten to update mysqltest.test due to changed output - duh!

The problem from a user point of view was that on Solaris the
time related functions (e.g. NOW(), SYSDATE(), etc) would always
return a fixed time.

This bug was happening due to a logic in the time retrieving
wrapper function which would only call the time() function every
half second. This interval between calls would be calculated
using the gethrtime() and the logic relied on the fact that time
returned by it is monotonic.

Unfortunately, due to bugs in the gethrtime() implementation,
there are some cases where the time returned by it can drift
(See Solaris bug id 6600939), potentially causing the interval
calculation logic to fail.

The solution is to retrieve the correct time whenever a drift in
the time returned by gethrtime() is detected. That is, do not
use the cached time whenever the values (previous and current)
returned by gethrtime() are not monotonically increasing.

to crash mysqld". 
      
handler::pushed_cond was not always properly reset when table objects where
recycled via the table cache.
      
handler::pushed_cond is now set to NULL in handler::ha_reset(). This should 
prevent pushed conditions from (incorrectly) re-apperaring in later queries.

Generalized fix for recursive backtick
Optional arg to eval_expr telling it not to interpret

Added a pattern match to cover combinations
Added to readme file

This patchs adds printing of a file stack (with line numbers)
It does not fix the problem of a failure in the non-first iteration of a loop